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National Close the Gap Day
- 16 March 2022
ANDY HAMILTON SJ reflects on the approaches needed to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
In brief: Feedback on the Draft National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children
- 4 March 2022
Jesuit Social Services recently gave feedback to the Federal Government’s Draft National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and Children 2022-2032 (the National Plan). We made a series of recommendations to ensure the National Plan meets its objective of a future free from gender-based violence...
The call for climate adaptation must leave no one behind
- 2 March 2022
The report makes clear that failing to mitigate and adapt to climate change will cost lives. Jesuit Social Services recognises that already disadvantaged and marginalised people are some of the first and worst affected by climate change.
Staff Q+A – Máire Wade – Policy, Research and Advocacy Coordinator
- 28 February 2022
In 2021, we contributed a submission to the Inquiry into Victoria’s Criminal Justice System, proposing practical suggestions for a reformed system focused on prevention, early intervention, and restorative justice. The submission’s author is our Policy, Research and Advocacy Coordinator Máire...
In brief: Submission to the Inquiry into Victoria’s Criminal Justice System
- 28 February 2022
Jesuit Social Services was pleased to contribute a submission to the Inquiry into Victoria’s Criminal Justice System. We highlighted some of our concerns with current operations, and presented our vision of an evidence-based, socially just system underpinned by principles of prevention, early...
Anniversary of the National Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples
- 13 February 2022
Government policies and processes continue to separate First Nations children from their families at alarming and disproportionate rates – on the fifteenth anniversary of the Stolen Generations apology, ANDY HAMILTON SJ reflects on a better way to support children and families at risk. ...
Transition to zero emissions future must include a focus on decarceration
- 19 January 2022
Jesuit Social Services has launched a discussion paper arguing that in a world of worsening climate change, Australia’s reliance on incarceration is increasingly untenable....
New Year's Day 2022
- 30 December 2021
The new year is an opportunity to ask more deeply where we wish to go, and use the challenges of COVID-19 to help us see what matters most deeply, writes ANDY HAMILTON SJ. ...
Christmas Day 2021
- 23 December 2021
ANDY HAMILTON SJ reflects on a Christmas of simplicity and purpose....
International Migrants Day and International Day of Human Solidarity 2021
- 18 December 2021
At Christmas, the larger story behind Jesus’ birth models the solidarity that is the proper response to migrants and other people who find themselves in need, writes ANDY HAMILTON SJ....